I’ve been wanting to try this idea for a long time, and when Susannah and Ellie came over this week, I decided that prepping art projects for three would be almost as simple as just for Tommy. I adjusted the original idea, and the kids had a lot of fun! They picked out their background color, then they glued the ladybug on. I wrote out the math problem and told them to glue the first number of dots on one side and the second number on the other. Then we counted the total and wrote the answer down. I made Susannah’s harder since she’s 5, and the 3 year olds loved that both of their addition problems added up to 9. How cool that 4+5 AND 6+3 both equal 9! At lunch, while the ladybugs were drying in the middle of the table, the kids asked to count up ALL of the dots on all three ladybugs.
i love seeing what you guys are doing- this is giving me some great ideas for a few years down the road!